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Digits: Gadgets & Gambits
In the World of Technology

Updated Aug. 10, 2000 12:00 a.m. ET

Throwing Apples?

Just as a controversial new biography on Apple Computer Inc.'s founder and chief executive is about to hit store shelves, it has been mysteriously dogged by all sorts of problems. Late last week, "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs," a new unauthorized bio by journalist Alan Deutschman, was hit with a cover recall. Random House Inc., the book's publisher, sent out a memo asking that all prints of the cover photo and Web sites featuring the picture of Mr. Jobs -- complete with a fake halo -- be removed, pending "legal concerns" with the photographer. Mr. Jobs spoke to Peter Olson,...